Montpelier House and Western House, 89 and 91 Market Place

Montpelier House and Western House are a pair of buildings dating from the 1750s, originally a single residence adapted for retail use in the 20th century and subsequently divided into two units. The front range is constructed of knapped flint with gault brick dressings, while the rear range is of handmade red brick. The roof is covered with black-glazed pantiles.

The house has a double-pile, rectangular plan, facing west onto the Market Place, with a small 20th-century extension to the rear of Western House. Montpelier House is three storeys high with seven bays, topped by a pitched roof featuring stone coping to the gable parapets and internal gable-end stacks at both ends. It has a bracketed eaves cornice and platbands at the first and second-floor levels. The windows are set within brick blocking, flush with the flint, and have flint panels below, creating the appearance of simplified flushwork. The central three bays project forward, defined by rusticated brick quoins repeated on the outside angles of the facade. A modern glass door in the central bay is set within a semi-circular porch supported by two fluted Roman Doric columns and pilasters, featuring a Greek key meander in the frieze and a plain entablature. The windows are predominantly six-over-six pane horned sashes to the ground and first floors, and three-over-three pane horned sashes to the attic floor, all with gauged skewback arches, except for the ground-floor windows flanking the entrance which have rusticated voussoirs. The two ground and third-floor windows on the right-hand side are hornless. A secondary doorway in the extreme right bay has a timber doorcase with consoles supporting a hood. A flat-roofed, single-storey extension in matching materials is located on the left (north) gable end, featuring a bowed plate-glass display window. The rear elevation is under a catslide roof.

The main staircase has been removed, but a secondary stick-baluster staircase remains within Western House, beneath which are reused fragments of mid-17th century small-framed panelling. A first-floor room has a marble fire insert within an eared timber surround featuring acanthus decoration, an imbricated pulvinated frieze with shell ornament in high relief, and an eared overmantel with corner rosettes beneath a broken pediment containing a bust. The room also has large-framed wall panelling with meander decoration, a plaster cornice with dentils, egg-and-dart moulding, and modillions. Window surrounds incorporate reel and bobbin mouldings and acanthus carving.